Short fiction film competition -part VI
THURSDAY, 05.03.2026, 16:15-18:30 (JCK, st. BANKOWA 28/30)
END UP IN THE SUN
The mother of Louis, 9 years old, acts increasingly distant. Louis doesn’t really realize it until the day she goes away for an entire evening. A feeling of anxiety then takes hold of him. Would she be able to abandon him and his brother?
FRA, FINIR AU SOLEIL, 2025, 22:00, dir. Ephrem Koering, prod. Cyril Favelin
MOTHER IS A NATURAL SINNER
Hoda, an Iranian refugee woman, lives in exile in Germany with her boyfriend, Hadi.
Due to an unexpected pregnancy, Hoda starts to examine common beliefs regarding gender roles in a relationship and openly challenges the current patriarchal social norms surrounding feminine bodies and motherhood.
D/IRN, 2024, 15:00, dir. Hoda Taheri, Boris Hadžija, prod. Maximilian Feldkamp
LOYNES
A Kafkaesque courtroom drama set in 19th-century Liverpool, recounting the trial of a corpse with neither name nor past. Dozens have gathered for the absurd ceremony — and perhaps to deliver justice.
BEL/FRA/UK/MKD, 2025, 25:00, dir. Dorian Jespers, prod. Clyde Gates, Jules Reinartz
A YOUNG SOFIANE
On July 1st, 2005, Zoléra receives a call in the middle of the night; her son Sofiane has had a scooter accident. The doctors inform her that he collided with an ambulance and did not survive. Sofiane’s blood type, A-, suggests intoxication; the young delinquent caused the accident, and the firefighters are not at fault. However, a doubt remains: Sofiane’s blood type was actually “A+.”
FRA, Le jeune Sofiane, 2024, 29:00, dir. Fabien Ara, prod. Nicolas D’autryve, Sophie Martin, Natacha Delmon Casanova
I GAZE AT THE SKY
The early days of the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian children displaced by the conflict are brought to a Russian elementary school. One of them turns out to be the long-lost nephew of Victoria, a music teacher of Ukrainian descent. Victoria awakens from the slumber of Russian propaganda and begins a desperate fight to save the boy.
PL, 2025, 23:46, dir. Alexandra Strunin, prod. Maciej Ślesicki – Warsaw Film School